Minute-rove-beetle
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Cephennodes corporosus
Cephennodes corporosus is a species of rove beetle in the family Staphylinidae, subfamily Scydmaeninae. Originally described by John Lawrence LeConte in 1852 under the genus Sphex (a wasp genus), this species has since been reclassified to the beetle genus Cephennodes. It belongs to a group of minute rove beetles, with most members of this subfamily measuring less than 2 mm in length. The species is known from scattered records in the eastern and central United States.